David Arnold: He shoots, he scores

Arnold made his name scoring the sci-fi blockbusters of the 1990s – and classical audiences are lapping it up, writes Nadine O’Regan

David Arnold: ‘If you get a few successes, you can live the rest of your career off the back of that’

‘It’s an odd thing being a film composer because you’re largely anonymous. You have very little celebrity pull. But even when people don’t know who you are, they know what you’ve done. When you do concerts, I would hope that even someone walking in off the street would know 20 per cent of the music.”

Over the phone line from his home in London, David Arnold is reflecting on what is – by ...